CURRENT MISSION

to enjoy and appreciate the infinitely intricate beauty of existence.

ABOUT ME

I am an addiction medicine and HIV physician, working at the Los Angeles County Jail.

PHILOSOPHY

I learn most when I leave myself vulnerable.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have had countless memorable experiences and met many fantastic people on couchsurfing. Now, it seems like it is an empty shell of what it used to be, but I would like to believe that it can still maintain its strength and vitality in the same world as airbnb, so I will not abandon it yet!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Amsterdam, Lisboa, Cartago, Firenze, Lviv, Krakow, Budapest, Roatan, Singapore, Johor Bahru, Athens...

Interests

live music, art, queer culture, medicine, bicycling, plants , listening to people talk about what they are passionate about, fermentation, cooking strange and complicated things

• arts
• culture

Music, Movies, and Books

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Paradise Lost, God of Small Things, Moby Dick, Notre Dame des Fleurs, George Orwell, Invisible Cities, The Tin Drum, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude
live music, Laura Veirs, Jolie Holland, Uke of Spaces, Castanets, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, roosters and cicadas, Songs: Ohia, Fiona Apple, Dark Dark Dark, Frank Ocean, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Knife, opera, music from Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, etc.
Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My personality doesn't encourage me to talk about myself in this way...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Western Medicine, I would like to learn more about non-western medicine
Teach me your passions

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will cook some food for us to eat! or whatever you like.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mozambique, Myanmar, United States

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